Aidan Smith

Journalist, author. Nine-times winner, Scottish Press Awards. New book Hibs at 150: Down the Slope with Football's Great Pioneers (Birlinn) out 6 November.

[Brendan Boyle @BrendyBoyle]

I love the angle taken by @kenearlys on the Champions League final.

He’s absolutely right to dedicate so much time to how Arsenal waste time 🗑️

The drinking water and human life lines 🤣

[Kyle Boas @KyleBoas_]

Havertz wins a throw-in at +5:12, hands it to Mosquera at +5:25, hands it to Rice for the long throw-in at +5:46.

Win a corner from the throw-in at +5:55. Saka begins to put the ball down at +6:25.

The entire first half. A set-piece clock is needed. 10s

[Ashley McGinn @AshleyMcGinn_]

Unreal @jmcginn7 ! 👏🏽 🏆

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Comedy palate cleanser. Robert Jenrick about to grandstand but reminded of his defection from one party to another this year is gold. The timing. First line great. Second line superb but crowd not recovered from the first to fully appreciate it 😊

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years?

Yes, forty, forty five years.

Happy birthday Paul 🤘

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

Every time running out at Easter Rd he’d head for the main terracing, play a one-two with Erich Schaedler and hit the ball off an advertising board, right in front of me and my dad

[Persevere Originals @PersevereOG]

🎉 Happy 78th birthday to Hibs legend John Blackley 🥳

A key figure in Turnbull’s Tornadoes, John made 279 appearances for Hibs and later managed the club from 1984 to 1986

Here he is reflecting on the iconic 7-0 win at Tynecastle �

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

Wilson Humphries the forgotten man of that great era, fine work Derek

[Derek Binnie @binzoboy]

New vid, and just used the old lyrics of the song to accompany it. Very difficult to find any decent images of Tom McNiven and Wilson Humphries, Eddies right hand men, so I used this pic I was commissioned to fix of them outside the stadium and made a new pics of them to use🇳🇬💚

[BBC Press Office @bbcpress]

Remembering Gone Fishing’s Ted - Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse pay tribute

More ➡️ https://t.co/6ghySJTlqW

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“I’ll be all over the Farage £5 million donor story as soon as I’ve finished investigating allegations that Starmer owes a mate 22p for a Mars bar he bought him in 1987.”

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

[Im_A_Believer @BelieveInKlopp]

I loved Bobby and thought I truly appreciated him

Then I watched this close up of his skills in actual matches and WOW………

What a player, totally underrated. Damn no one comes close to his ability?

[Dawn Astle MBE @DawnAstle9]

It was a privilege to drive up to Edinburgh to attend the funeral of former professional footballer Alex Cropley today.
A wonderful service celebrating the life of a wonderful man.
My thoughts are with Liz and all of the Cropley family at this desperately sad time.
Sleep tight Alex 😞

@HibernianFC @Arsenal @AVFCOfficial

#dementiainfootball @JeffAstleFdn

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

@binzoboy Was generally down on AI until I read this!

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

Fantastic Derek. You’ve speeded up Ally - that’s faster than he ever moved in games - but one of my all-time solid gold Hibee faves

[Derek Binnie @binzoboy]

Thought I’d stick those 4 images together. p.s. The hole in the pitch was Tony Higgins sitting down🙄🤣💚🇳🇬

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

Was at that Motherwell game. My only completely snowbound one. Orange ball, no Health & Safety concerns for the fans - great stuff

[Derek Binnie @binzoboy]

Decided to give these 4 some TLC. Originals in comments 🇳🇬💚👍

[Angus Peter Campbell @aonghasphadraig]

@aidansmith07 Alex Cropley was, without any doubt, a proper poet on the pitch.

[The_Proclaimers @The_Proclaimers]

Alex Cropley R.I.P.

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

A poet adds his tribute. Put that in your pipes, Jambos, and smoke it

[Angus Peter Campbell @aonghasphadraig]

Very sorry to hear this. When I was a student at Edinburgh Uni I used to go to Easter Road to watch Hibs. They had a wonderful team, including Pat Stanton, John Blackley etc but the most elegant player was Alex Cropley. He was a joy to watch. Condolences to family and friends.

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

His goal in the 0-7 game has been much posted, but you had to be there - Tynie, ’71, TV not present - for Alex’s greatest. Remember Best vs Sheffield Utd running diagonally one way then shooting the other across the bamboozled keeper? Our man beat him to this feat by two months

[PictureThis Scotland @74frankfurt]

Alex Cropley - 199 appearances for Hibernian, 49 goals, 1968–1974.

While with Hibs, he won the Scottish League Cup of 1972, in a 2–1 victory over Celtic in the final.

[Aidan Smith @aidansmith07]

RIP Alex Cropley. A few words on his immense talent from my book, Hibs at 150